Discovered by Johann Gotfried Galle Date of discovery September 23, 1846 Mass (kg) 1.024e+26 Mass (Earth = 1) 1.7135e+01 Equatorial radius (km) 24,746 Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) 3.8799e+00 Mean density (gm/cm^3) 1.64 Mean distance from the Sun (km) 4,504,300,000 Mean distance...
Triton is one of the 14moons discovered orbiting the planetNeptune. Triton was discovered in 1846 by W. Lassell. Triton is a member of theNeptune Irregular Groupgroup of Neptune moons. Triton's mass is estimated/calculated at 21,394,990,550,895,500,000,000 kg. Its density has been calcu...
Planet TOI 4633 c was discovered by 15 “citizen scientists” who pored over TESS data as part of the Planet Hunters TESS citizen science project. Some 40,000 such volunteers regularly inspect “light curves” – lines that trace the amount of light coming from a star and that dip...
From its discovery in 1846 until the discovery of Pluto in 1930, Neptune was the farthest-known planet. When Pluto was discovered, it was considered a planet, and Neptune thus became the second-farthest-known planet, except for a 20-year period between 1979 and 1999 when Pluto's elliptical ...
Neso is one of the 14moons discovered orbiting the planetNeptune. Neso was discovered in 2002 by Matthew J. Holman, John J. Kavelaars, Tommy Grav, Wesley C. Fraser, and Dan Milisavljevic. Neso is a member of theNeptune Irregular Groupgroup of Neptune moons. ...